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Consequentialism has no problems with lying at all.
Many internet libertarians aren't very consequentialist, though. And really, just the basic application of rule-utilitarianism would expose many, many problems with that post. But really, though: while the "Non-Aggression Principle" appears just laughably unworkable to me... given that many libertarians do subscribe to it, is lying to voters not an act of aggression?
Depends on your point of view, of course, but I don't think the bleeding-heart libertarians (aka liberaltarians) are actually libertarians. In any case, it's likely that the guy didn't spend too much time thinking it through. But so what? You know the appropriate xkcd cartoon, I assume...